Field Notes

Recycling

Cyber Lake

Deer Watch

Dig Deep

Flood Alert!

Gizmos

H₂O Sleuths

Healthy River?

Microclimates

Mystery Lake

Rain Gauge

River Kids

Runoff Effect

Tree Growth

Whaling Rights

A fter spending time at the Rural Girls in Science summer camp thinking about community projects, students from Inchelium K-12 decided to start a recycling program in their school district.

Bessie, Sara, Gloria, Sharon, and Cara designed the following five-step method to introduce students, teachers, and administrators to the new recycling program over the course of the school year:

First Step:
We put cans and signs around the school to let people we were starting up a recycling program in our school district.

Second Step:
We put boxes in everyone's classrooms and told them about the recycling program.

Third Step:
We sent out surveys to find out what people in the community thought about recycling

Fourth Step:
We did a presentation for our school board to let them know what we do on all of our field trips to recycling centers and processing plants.

Fifth Step:
We designed a bulletin board to show people in our school everything that we have done with our long-term project and to show them that Everything is Working Out!

Inchelium H.S.
Inchelium, WA
5 young women researchers
Advisors: Debra Berg, Don Johnson

Colville Recycling

Spokane Waste Management

USK Paper Mill

Seattle Glass

Proler Aluminum

Plastic Co.